After a long wait for the solo seat for my R1 2012 50th anniversary I finally got it from mrcycles.com and some how the color does not match my bike.

The part # I receive is 14B-247F0-T0 and seems like the correct part # is 14B-247F0-10-00.

I contacted Ken at mrcycles.com and he says that this part # can't be order from Yamaha US. I've seen pictures of R1's in the forum with the solo seat and the color looks 100% matched. This one it's not even close.

The bad part is that I don't live in the US. Therefore, ship it back will cost more than the actual solo seat.

At this point I just need to know what happened with these 2 codes and why the error.

As you can see on the pictures there is a big difference on the color. To be honest I have no idea if my R1 it's the EU model because I bought it in Panama Central America and I think Yamaha here buys directly from Japan, but not 100% sure.

If you see it with day light it's not too much. However, at night the difference it's huge. I just left the solo seat with the front tire guard to match the paint. Hope the people that paints ferrari and Lamborghini can do this job.

I got the same part with the same #'s as what you recieved, from the same place too, the part with numbers ending in 10-00 were taken from Yamaha Europe's website and cannot be ordered in the U.S., that is correct. The color match won't be perfect, but your's looks pretty far off. I wonder if the clearcoat has the metallic in it, and your's just doesn't have enough of it . My cowl box says Racing Red on it, when looked up at Yamaha's site they call it Rapid Red. Part # is the same as what I got 14B-247FO-TO. Made in Italy, I'm pretty sure Acerbis makes them for Yamaha . I would call Yamaha where bike was bought for correct part #, should be the same but you never know.

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